> I have an idea: we could have a second elephant database used only for > reference tracking. It does not have to have the same backend, > bdb will probably be the best choice at all time. This should be easy > to implement and avoid the problem completely? > Make we can make its use an option, after all if a hashtable works for > you there should be no need to configure a "backup-helper-db". >
Migration already supports the 'DB as object pointer' strategy for very large migrations for the same reason. I think it's an easy and totally reasonable approach. _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel